Optimal portfolio investment and coordinated scheduling of an energy storage merchant in the energy

We access strategic behaviour of a merchant energy storage provider in the bulk power market through a bilevel model to represent sequential decisions in investment and operations. W model optimal portfolio investments based on sitting, sizing, and technology mix, and explore the effect of strategic operations, such as coordinated scheduling, on decisions. We transform this model into a math program with equilibrium constraints (MPEC), and approximate and solve as a mixed integer program (MIP).